Just prior to Autodesk University 2024 in San Deigo this week, Autodesk announced that the mothership is now an official LA 2028 Olympics sponsor. For the Northern California tech company that generates a ton of money from the AEC Industry, the Media and Entertainment crowd, and Manufacturing worldwide so a Design and Make sponsorship makes obvious sense.
If we consider the current State of California and the condition of their corporate home city by the Bay, it would probably be downright embarrassing if Autodesk didn’t become a sponsor.
We can probably guess that all it took was a phone call or two.
My bet is the phone call didn’t come from the California Coastal Commission either.
Autodesk and the LA 2028 Olympics
We hear that the City and County of Los Angeles plans to remodel and/or retrofit about 40 separate venues (including the famous but not too ancient LA Coliseum) for the up-and-coming 2028 event.
We can all probably also guess that Elon’s tunnel company will not be drilling new tunnels through the Southern California seismic earthquake faults to help try and get the many tourist visitors back of forth across town. Maybe Boeing will help?
Speaking of San Deigo and zoos did you see that the Pandas arrived from China just in time for AU 2024. Beat out the National Zoo too. Speaks volumes.
We can take it for granted that the California high-speed rail project received notice from Paris when that event wrapped up that there will be another long delay and cost overruns. Caltrans will have other more important things to do.
Come on, man. This is California. We have a governor nicknamed His Nuisance and an ex-attorney general named The Cackle. Oh. That’s right. You’re already way too familiar with them.
Autodesk University 2024 and AI
It was the year of the almost AI at AU 2024. The Autodesk corporate pitch seemed to be centered about the not-so-immediate future of AI inside the Autodesk Clouds.
Yes. I am happy Autodesk groups are at work on consistent data models for the many complexities in our industries. You all know that I rant an annoying amount of time about the preeminent and emergent nature of the data behind in our projects.
We all can hopefully recognize it is all about better and faster decision making and quality control processes. Maybe? Maybe not?
Odds are there’s a new Autodesk Assistant knocking on our desktop app door to help us perform better in our production work any day now. Do we call him/her/them/it Andy?
We can be quite sure that the forthcoming Autodesk AIs will quickly replace all the experts like little ol’ me. About time.
They will happily instruct us from Chinese data centers about how to better create, edit, manage, and maintain better Civil 3D projects in less time but with more money in Autodesk shareholder pockets.
What me worry?
These folks thought a Big Data search for more comprehensive Drawing, Standard, and Style naming conventions was a foolish idea and project only 10-12 years ago. They thought so 5 years ago too. I hope they said no to me and hired someone to do it. Ok. Maybe some program manager over there will steal the idea and finally build a training model.
We can hope.
Don’t hold your breath.
Is it too early to talk about Christmas and Wishes?
All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth
My annual AU Wish list item remains a Units aware component added to the Civil 3D (or maybe the AutoCAD) Object Model that delivers the appropriate unit marks in a Civil 3D Label Style. A simple component that reads the drawing UNITS settings and can deliver the appropriate meter, centimeter, foot, inch, etc mark in text format by our choice of unit scale.
Nope.
It’s not rocket science.
It ain’t AI.
It ain’t even sexy.
Save us all a lot of create, edit, and maintain time and aggravation. Just sayin’.
Can I get an Amen from our many potential international Framework customers.
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